It would APPEAR that even the press was holding BACK, not wanting to burn their sources:

CBS News confirmed last year that U.S. intelligence officials knew that the Russian government operation to interfere in the U.S. election had
been approved by Putin himself, but they were reluctant to reveal how much they knew out of concern that sources and methods could be compromised,
CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues reports.

That CIA report to Obama is WHAT promoted them to EXPEL Russian diplomats. The report WAS worrisome:

President Obama received a secret CIA report in August. That report "captured Putin's specific instructions on the operation's
audacious objectives - defeat or at least damage the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton."

It seems we have some DEEP assets within the Russian government:

U.S. intelligence agencies had sourcing deep inside the Russian government capturing Putin's direct instructions in the
operation

This DOVETAILS with something I managed to CAPTURE before it was SWIFTLY deleted a few WEEKS back. It SEEMED at the TIME worth screen capping:

Within an HOUR it was removed. Guy claims to be an East Asia analyst, not revealing anything SECRET -- but admitting we have some DEEP
plants with SPECIFIC info...and revealing those ASSETS would be disasterous.

This is a conspiracy board, yes?

The article today CONTINUES...

Mr. Obama set in motion a secret program that authorized the deployment of "implants" in Russian networks - digital bombs that could
be triggered in a retaliatory cyberstrike in the event of Moscow aggression - and that it would be up to President Trump to decide to use the
capability.

WELL...I now that the CAT is out of the BAG ... I wonder if Trump will acknowledge these? And FINALLY:

BS News has confirmed that congressional investigators are looking into whether Trump campaign associates obtained information from hacked
voter databases during the
election.

Perhaps Cambridge Anyaltica?...anyone? We now KNOW that the VOTER records were HACKED. While it hasn't been determined (due to NO
AUDITS) if the numbers were changed...we DO know names, addresses and party affiliation RECORDS were taken by Russia.

Could that INFO have been LAUNDERED into Trump campaign surrogates? Used to microtarget YOU? Used to reinforceyour media bubble??

The GOP is so HELL bent and drunk on POWER over their win...they'll never admit the White House was compromised by a Russian soft coup. We
know TWO thigns:

Well, Putin came right out and said that he did not want Clinton as president on TV. They were against Clinton, anyone who would have run against her
would have had their support. Hillary is not a person we should have even considered for president, there are a hundred million better women in this
country than her. Any one of them would have run and won against Trump.

It isn't that Trump is good so much as it is that Hillary is bad. Russians were happy that Hillary did not win.

Another swing & a miss from the 4th Branch of the Government/Elite, the Mainstream Media. The Russian Meddling narrative just won't die.

It would APPEAR that even the press was holding BACK, not wanting to burn their sources

Like they have been doing since the Russian Meddling stories began? Anonymous sources, someone "read them the Comey memo over the phone", these
attempts are so pathetic. The MSM is shooting themselves in the foot, again. Guess we'll see if they actually come up with legitimate claims for
once.

Don't forget, Vault 7 Wikileaks appears to reveal that our intelligence agencies have hacking capability to make it look like another
country/entity hacked us when it could have been an inside job all along.

The most interesting part about it is all the Russians had to do to "help Trump" was expose the DNC and Clinton for the nasty, vile creatures they
are. Russia didn't have to hack the vote, just had to lift the veil and give everybody a peek at what was happening.

And, as Stosh pointed out, if anybody's White House was compromised by the Russians, it was Obama's. Kinda silly to blame Trump's White House for
things that happened when the other guy was living there.

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